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Book Synopsis Pigeon Post and Other Stories by : Gwen Smith
Download or read book Pigeon Post and Other Stories written by Gwen Smith and published by Oyez!Books. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six animal-theme stories of children encountering animals - what happens is chaos, love and even teamwork. A good read for primary-school children. "Sure enough the kitchen floor was tilted slightly. Susheila gasped and ran in to grab Cloud's cage and her schoolbag and scuttled after the others up towards the road. Looking back she could see that the trees and part of the road has slid down towards the river which was now pushing the loose earth and stones out of its way. their house has slipped down towards the rushing river. She clutched her mother's arm. - Excerpt from Pigeon Post, the first of six stories in this new book by Gwen Smith.
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series has stood the test of time. Ransome is not only a great storyteller, writing from first-hand experience, but each story celebrates eternally valuable qualities of practical knowledge, independence, and initiative. The twelve books are for children or grownups-anyone captivated by a world of sailing, adventure, and imagination. The crew's on holiday for their sixth adventure, and they turn their energies to mining for gold, aided by pigeon messengers Homer, Sophocles, and Sappho. The adventurers comb the nearby hills for a fabled lost claim, while being shadowed by a mysterious figure they dub "squashy hat." Undeterred by drought, sudden brushfires, and the continuing presence of Squashy Hat, the young prospectors persevere in their quest-with surprising results. Full of the dangers and dark adventures of old mines and forgotten claims, Pigeon Post has an irresistible appeal to the persistent explorer in all of us.
Download or read book Pigeon Feathers written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marital, is vital to him; it is the matter in which the saving truth is incarnate. . . . Pigeon Feathers is not just a book of very brilliant short stories; it is a demonstration of how the most gifted writer of his generation is coming to maturity; it shows us that Mr. Updike’s fine verbal talent is no longer pirouetting, however gracefully, out of a simple delight in motion, but is beginning to serve his deepest insight.”
Book Synopsis The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! by : Mo Willems
Download or read book The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! written by Mo Willems and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, the pigeon dreamed of driving the titular bus. In this board book, readers will see him deliriously emoting at the thought of driving a plane, a train, a car, and more, all in his uproariously over-the-top style.
Book Synopsis The Predatory Animal Ball by : Jennifer Fliss
Download or read book The Predatory Animal Ball written by Jennifer Fliss and published by Okay Donkey Press. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society where predators are always the ones doing the celebrating, Jennifer Fliss's debut collection of short stories, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL, crashes the party. These stories are about the people left in the predators' wake, and the large and small ways in which their grief and fear manifest. Predators appear in the places we least expect it, and this collection turns the previously accepted hierarchies upside down in a series of flash fiction that are often absurd, but always cutting.
Book Synopsis The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories by : Nina Allan
Download or read book The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories written by Nina Allan and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully inventive collection from multi award-winning author Nina Allan. These stories will enthral fans of China Mieville, Aliya Whiteley and Carmen Maria Machado. A stunningly inventive collection from multi award-winning author, Nina Allan. Unsettling, dark and brilliantly astute, these weird and wonderful tales take us on journeys through time and space to explore enduring questions of memory and loss. Her worlds are recognisably our own but always closer to the edge, on the slant – and sharply unexpected. These stories are an unmissable insight into a writer at the top of her game.
Download or read book Burn written by Nevada Barr and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon takes the city of New Orleans by storm in her latest adventure from a "New York Times"-bestselling author. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. Martin's Press.
Book Synopsis Swallows & Amazons (ALL 12 Adventure Novels) by : Arthur Ransome
Download or read book Swallows & Amazons (ALL 12 Adventure Novels) written by Arthur Ransome and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 2717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swallows and Amazons is a series of twelve adventure novels set in the interwar period, involving group adventures by children, mainly in the school holidays and mainly in England. They revolve around outdoor activities, especially sailing. The series begins with the Walker children from London, who stay at a lakeside farm in the school holidays, sail a dinghy named Swallow, while the local Blackett girls, living on the opposite shore, have one named Amazon. The Walkers see themselves as explorers, while the Blacketts declare themselves pirates. They clash on an island in the lake, make friends, and have a series of adventures that weave tales of pirates and exploration into everyday life in rural England. Table of Contents: Swallows and Amazons Swallowdale Peter Duck Winter Holiday Coot Club Pigeon Post We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea Secret Water The Big Six Missee Lee The Picts and the Martyrs: Or Not Welcome At All Great Northern?
Download or read book Invented Truth written by Josephine Woll and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "years of stagnation" before glasnost changed the cultural map of the Soviet Union, Iurii Trifonov (1926-1981) defied the rules of censorship. In Invented Truth, Josphine Woll examines how, within the repressive artistic and political constraints of the Soviet publishing world, Trifonov managed not only to write on controversial tropics such as Soviet history but even to achieve and maintain popular status in doing so. Woll analyzes the aesthetic strategies Trifonov deployed to transmit his ideas and opinions to Soviet readers and elucidates the major themes of his late fiction: the moral climate that permitted the triumph of Stalinist immorality, the relationship between the Bolshevik revolutionary past and present-day Soviet amorality, and, finally, art's prismatic interpretation of reality. Drawing on both Western and Soviet scholarship, as well as interviews with many Soviet and emigre writers, literary critics, and personal acquaintances of Trifonov, Woll provides detailed background on the Soviet literary milieu and the rules governing literary production.
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Dumitru Țepeneag and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A man, a writer, lives alone in a rather squalid Paris apartment. He is trying to write a novel, but he has nothing to say. He tries multiple beginnings, interspersed with one digression (but from what?) after another. In the hope of finding subject matter for his would-be realistic story, he then sends letters to three friends - Edmond, Edgar, and Edourd - with a list of questions about their lives, some rather personal inquiries, some bordering on the obscene. The responses are not very helpful, and even seem suspiciously untrue. Out of this melange of stops and starts, false information, questionable memories, pieces of this and that, an insanely comic novel starts to emerge." "Dumitru Tsepeneag takes us into a game of memory and storytelling, where the tenderness of the past clashes with the comedy of the present, and where fictional characters and actual friends mingle in the play of the imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Hard Times (And Other Stories) by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book Hard Times (And Other Stories) written by Charles Dickens and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When "Hard Times" appeared as a serial in Household Words in 1854, Dickens was about midway in his literary career. In the same year this novel appeared in an octavo volume with a dedication to Thomas Carlyle. Its purpose, according to Dickens himself, was to satirize "those who see figures and averages and nothing else—the representatives of the wickedest and most enormous vice of this time — the men who through long years to come will do more to damage the really useful facts of Political Economy than I could do (if I tried) in my whole life." The satire, however, like much that Dickens attempted in the same vein, was not very bitter. The characters in "Hard Times" are not numerous; and the plot itself is less intricate than others by the same author. The chief figures are Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, "a man of realities," with his unbounded faith in statistics; Louisa, his eldest daughter; and Josiah Bounderby, as practical as Mr. Gradgrind, but less kind-hearted. Louisa, though many years younger than Mr. Bounderby, is persuaded by her father to marry him. She is also influenced in making this marriage by her desire to smooth the path of her brother Tom, a clerk in Mr. Bounderby's office. Though not happy, she resists the blandishments of James Harthouse, a professed friend of her husband's. To escape him she has to go home to her father; and this leads to a permanent estrangement between husband and wife. In the mean time Tom Gradgrind has stolen money from Bounderby, and to avoid punishment runs away from England ...
Download or read book Pigeon English written by Stephen Kelman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.
Book Synopsis Of Modern Dragons; and other essays on Genre Fiction: by : John Lennard
Download or read book Of Modern Dragons; and other essays on Genre Fiction: written by John Lennard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of essays exploring some of the best genre fiction of the last 40 years.
Download or read book Bad Panda written by Swapna Haddow and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you sick of being utterly adorable?Tired of being cuddled and hugged?Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so happen to be SOOOOPER-DOOOOOPER fluffy?Lin: If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you're in the right book.Everyone thinks that Lin is the cutest panda in the world. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo, away from her beloved brother, to be ogled at by the masses. But Lin HATES being cute, and now she will do everything in her power to prove that she's the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo.Laugh-yourself-out-of-bed hilarious, the first in a new series from the creators of DAVE PIGEON.
Book Synopsis Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by : Vandana Singh
Download or read book Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories written by Vandana Singh and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short story in Ambiguity Machines. Her deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that consider and celebrate this world and others, with characters who try to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. And in ‘Requiem,’ a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt’s disappearance. Examining the revolutionary potential of speculative fiction, Singh dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within to explore the ways in which we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.
Book Synopsis Contemporary World Fiction by : Juris Dilevko
Download or read book Contemporary World Fiction written by Juris Dilevko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.
Download or read book Pigeon Post written by Arthur Ransome and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1936 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.; revised edition published in 1983"--Copyright page.
